FREDERICTON — The executive director of New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative party is raising questions about the integrity of the provincial Liberal leadership race after he was able to vote using his dog’s name.

Jean-Paul Soucy says he registered his dog Pitou — or puppy in English — to vote online for one of the three candidates vying for the top Liberal job at Saturday’s leadership convention in Moncton, N.B.

Soucy says he couldn’t use his own name because he’s a member of the Tory party.

He says he thought he would’ve been caught while registering, but was surprised when a voting package arrived in the mail for his dog, including a pin number to vote online.

Liberal party president Britt Dysart says with 19,000 registered voters, he doesn’t think one issue of deliberate deception is a major problem.

He says efforts have been made to verify all the names on the list, but doesn’t know what happened in this case.

Former provincial Liberal cabinet minister Mike Murphy, Moncton lawyer Brian Gallant and Nick Duivenvoorden (DY’-ven-vor-den), a former mayor of the village of Belledune, are vying for the leadership.